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On Richard Wilbur’s Birthday: “Mind”
Mind Mind in its purest play is like some batThat beats about in caverns all alone,Contriving by a kind of senseless witNot to conclude against a wall of stone. It has no need to…
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Seven Splendid Anthologies [by David Lehman]
* Louis Untermeyer, A Concise Treasure of American Poetry (Pocket Books). A peerless one-volume introduction to American poetry. Untermeyer's biographical notes and comments are exemplary. See the note on William Cullen Bryant. * The…
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Myra Sklarew: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
________________________________________ Birdland for Sterling Brown So I take my seven bucks to buy a…
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Frank, Fred, and Elvis
ELVIS PRESLEY, FRANK SINATRA and FRED ASTAIRE at Nancy Sinatra's opening night party, which was also celebrating the closing night for Elvis, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, in 1969. Elvis's bodyguard,…
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The Poet Who Never Was: Ern Malley [by David Lehman]
THE GREATEST literary hoax of the 20th century was concocted by a couple of Australian soldiers at their desks in the offices of the Victoria Barracks, land headquarters of the Australian army, on a…
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Interview with Tzimon Barto: Languages, Poetry and Education [by Lera Auerbach]
I am always fascinated by people who are masters of more than one profession. I interviewed Tzimon Barto for the Best American Poetry blog. His passions and knowledge run deep. Tzimon Barto speaks seven…
